Re: /var/lock directory permission recomendations...

2007-01-26 Thread Jerzy Goca
On 1/26/07, Dan Nicholson wrote: > I woudn't change permissions on the whole /var/lock directory. Other > packages might want to use it, too. Instead, make a > /var/lock/bluetooth directory with the necessary permissions. > >> I think that making it chmod 1777 would be what I need, but I may be no

Re: /var/lock directory permission recomendations...

2007-01-26 Thread Jerzy Goca
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, M Sandell wrote: >> BTW, the search of the (B)LFS mailing list is not working > Google can be used, either advanced search with > linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/ > in the "Only return resutls from the site or domain" box > or more simply, adding > site:linuxfromscra

/var/lock directory permission recomendations...

2007-01-26 Thread Jerzy Goca
I am experimenting with bluetooth and I have to change permissions to /var/lock. I looked into (B)LFS books, to the FHS but could not find any directions about the "proper" way to give permissions to /var/lock directory. I think this may be solved in a distribution policy level. I think that mak

KDE upgrade - uninstall first is needed?

2007-01-01 Thread Jerzy Goca
make uninstall. Is this step necessary before installing KDE-3.5.5? Of course I am going to do it in the console mode, with X server down. Do you have any recommendations? Regards, Jerzy Goca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Re: domainname - proper for NSS-3.11.3 and for /etc/issue

2007-01-01 Thread Jerzy Goca
Arden wrote: > I am still wondering where the proper place that /etc/issue gets the > domainname. > Arden Dan Nicholson answered the /etc/issue question in his post at 19.10.2006 (in the same thread you followed). Look into the archive. It works for him and for me too :-). Regards, juras

Do I need Kerberos, LDAP and SASL for a desktop?

2006-12-11 Thread Jerzy Goca
I have been building my BLFS for some time. At first I decided that I do not need Kerberos, LDAP and SASL, because my system should be a desktop not a server. I installed of course PAM, Shadow and Cracklib (Cracklib more for fun than for really need). I thought that Kerberos, LDAP and SASL are rath

Re: What do I need to play midi files - solved?

2006-12-09 Thread Jerzy Goca
Alessandro Alocci wrote: > Can you see if using value like -B4,11 or also -B8,10 -B8,11 improves things? > Also, if you don't specify the -B switch what is the default used? > A. Alocci > Definitely better with -B4,11. No glitches at all. | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ timidity -iA -B4,11 -Os | Request

Re: What do I need to play midi files - solved?

2006-12-08 Thread Jerzy Goca
The sound quality from fluidsynth is not very good, much worse than with timidity with eawpats. (May be I had wrong soundfonts) So I decided to uninstall fluidsynth. I compiled timidity again with --enable-audio=default,alsa,arts,esd,vorbis,oss and --enable-interface=alsaseq and launched it as al

Re: What do I need to play midi files and audio cd?

2006-12-08 Thread Jerzy Goca
Thank you Allesandro for your suggestions. I installed Timidity at first. It worked. I am able to play midi files both in timidity and in audacious, through the timidity plugin. Recompiling the plugins (ver 1.2.5) was not necessary. However it turned out that I can specify only one mid file at o

Re: What do I need to audio cd - solved

2006-12-07 Thread Jerzy Goca
I double-checked the access to CD-ROM. Added username to the cdrom group, but it didn't work. Audacious kept complaining that it has not access to the cdrom. Reboot helped. Now I can play audio cds. Thank you. Jerzy Goca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ:

Re: What do I need to play midi files and audio cd?

2006-12-07 Thread Jerzy Goca
Shawn napisał(a): > Hi Juras: > > A similar question was just asked in the past week. Look at the > blfs-support archives for December and it is the top item. > > AC97 is a generic codec used by soundcards. You still need to know your > sound card and find a driver for it. > I read that thread

KDE - error reeports at start and stop

2006-11-26 Thread Jerzy Goca
LFS-6.2 + BLFS svn. I have fresh install of KDE-3.5.2 and X11R6.9 I got some errors during start of KDE. These errors does not seem to be fatal, however I would like to know what they mean and how to get rid of them. What I am especially curious of are the kdecore warnings, QFont::setPointSize, Og

Re: KDE - locale - I'm a little disappointed...

2006-11-26 Thread Jerzy Goca
Alexander E. Patrakov napisał(a): > Jerzy Goca wrote: >> (LANG=pl_PL.ios88592), Inf fact it is a typo while writing email: I had LANG=pl_PL.iso88592 > > That's wrong. Should be just pl_PL or, equivalently, pl_PL.ISO-8859-2 > (case-sensitive). > Oh, thank you Alexan

KDE - locale - I'm a little disappointed...

2006-11-26 Thread Jerzy Goca
Can someone point my a reading, explaining how the locale and encodings are supposed to work in KDE. I thought I knew, but now I am convinced that I was wrong. Now all my "knowledge" about locale, fonts and encodings has collapsed. When I completed installing and configuring X on my fresh LFS sys

What happened to the online BLFS dev book ?

2006-11-18 Thread Jerzy Goca
I have been waiting for the book for two days. I though that there must be some technical problems with the web site. But it lasts too long... :-( Regards JG -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Another runtime dependency for xfce4.4rc1

2006-11-02 Thread Jerzy Goca
This dependency is not stated in any readme file - everyone seems to get it for granted. The dependency is fortune. It is necessary to display xfce4-tips - small toy from the package xfc4toys. To make it work I had to install fortune-mod-1.99.1 and its dependency: recode-3.6. May be this informat

Re: normal user cannot start x

2006-11-01 Thread Jerzy Goca
Tinow ME napisał(a): > it's: > > -rws--x--x 1 root root > > seems ok > > On 11/1/06, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Tinow ME wrote: >> > hi all >> > I just finished installation of xorg. The root startx ok, but >> > when I log in >> > as a user other than

Re: CUPS-1.1.23 cannot compile with libpng-1.1.12 ! - upgrade to CUPS-1.2.5

2006-10-30 Thread Jerzy Goca
Dan Nicholson napisał(a): > Just read your whole message and it seems that you've done this > already. Feel free to add any comments to the ticket above. > Thank you Dan, I was writing because I haven't seen the 'ticket' page before. :-D Sorry for my ignorance. It seems that I am doing a lot of noi

CUPS-1.1.23 cannot compile with libpng-1.1.12 ! - upgrade to CUPS-1.2.5

2006-10-30 Thread Jerzy Goca
I was  compiling CUPS-1.1.23  and got an error: (...) Compiling imagetops.c... (...) Compiling image-png.c... image-png.c: In function 'ImageReadPNG': image-png.c:89: warning: format '%d' expects type 'int', but argument 3 has type 'png_uint_32' image-png.c:89: warning: format '%d' expects typ

Re: teTeX-3.0 passivetex and pdfxmltex

2006-10-29 Thread Jerzy Goca
Jerzy Goca napisał(a): > I added to BLFS teTeX installation macros from xmltex and passivetex. > I compiled and installed xmlto in my system. It seems to be working with > html. > But to produce pdf files xmlto needs pdfxmltex. > After some research I made a script, which see

teTeX-3.0 passivetex and pdfxmltex

2006-10-29 Thread Jerzy Goca
I added to BLFS teTeX installation macros from xmltex and passivetex. I compiled and installed xmlto in my system. It seems to be working with html. But to produce pdf files xmlto needs pdfxmltex. I don't have it in my teTeX. The only advise I googled was to install another distribution form liveTe

Re: xfce4.4rc1 - missing icons... :-(

2006-10-27 Thread Jerzy Goca
Dan Nicholson napisał(a): > > Yes, the index file is important. As is the cache file. Thanks for > confirming this. It needs to be in the book. I think that you should know then, that I had to install also: vte-0.12.2 (in BLFS) - for Terminal-0.2.5.6rc1 - compile dependency, dbus-0.94.tar.gz and db

Re: xfce4.4rc1 - missing icons... :-(

2006-10-27 Thread Jerzy Goca
Dan Nicholson napisał(a): > (...) > One way to help diagnose this issue is with strace. This is not > explicitly in the book (should be), but is in the Other Programming > Tools section. > > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/other-tools.html > > Build should be straight configur

xfce4.4rc1 - missing icons... :-(

2006-10-27 Thread Jerzy Goca
I installed xfce4.4rc1 (all packages included in so called' fat tarball) in /usr. To every package I added: --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var The installation went without problems, but some applications seem to have problems finding icons. For example Settings Manager displa